Sunday was almost a lazy day. We spent most of the day relaxing but we both started our audio Spanish lessons and I spent some time on my Eurotalk Spanish disk. We will be spending a lot of time in Spanish speaking countries from October and, if a hurricane is aimed at Grenada, we could end up escaping down to Venezuela.
Yesterday I decided I needed to visit the doctor regarding my eye as it was getting quite irritating. He confirmed there was no major damage, just a scratch on the surface with some bleeding. He prescribed some antiseptic drops to prevent infection. At the same time I discussed my thumb which I injured back in May and is still clicking and causing pain. He provided me a note to have an X-Ray at the local general hospital. The doctors office was right by our favourite supermarket so we shopped for provisions and both returned to the boat for lunch.
In the afternoon I went into town taking with me one of our cleats to be used as a template to have backing plates made. At present we only have washers and nuts securing the cleat to the deck which is not as strong as backing plates. While we’re in project mode we felt it was worth strengthening all the cleats. Better safe than sorry.
After dropping off the cleat at the metal workers I headed over to the main town to pick up my eye drop prescription then head over to the hospital for my X-Ray. The facilities were pretty basic compared to US and UK hospitals but the job was done costing all of EC$15 (about US$5). They handed me a note to give back to the doctor. He wasn’t there when I returned so I’m awaiting contact later today. Hopefully is just age taking time to heal but for the extra EC$15 it’s worth having a peer inside.
Yesterday I confirmed the battery order in Trinidad and added our bottom paint requirements as it is 20% cheaper there than here. The goods should make it onto the Thursday ship out of Miami and reach Trinidad Wednesday next week. That should put us on a Monday evening departure from Grenada for an overnight passage to Trini – weather permitting.
The weather has been quite wet and windy. Prickly Bay lived up to its reputation last night and became a little rolly. The tropical waves seem to be picking up intensity but upper level wind sheers continue to prevent the waves developing into Hurricanes. Here we are approaching the end of July and still no big blows in the Caribbean.
Today we’re doing more admin. I may be picking up our cleat backing plates if they’re ready and perhaps dropping off one of our jib sheet travelers for similar work to be done for them. I may also measure up for some electrical cabling. One of the projects is to lower some of the resistance in our 12V circuit. I regret opting for the minimum thickness cable joining our solar panel regulator to the batteries so I want to upgrade that and use the old cable to double up the run from our batteries to our main control panel. Both of these improvements should lower the number of lost Amp/hours each day.
That’s about it for now.
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